2015 Bargaining Contract Explanation: Calculations for members' "new money"

2015 Bargaining Contract Explanation: Calculations for Members’ “New Money”

Today the Company is posting a calculator on their bargaining website in which employees can input their specific city, title, wage step, average overtime and health care usage (family/individual; low/medium/high usage; hospitalization).  It will then calculate the wage increase, the health care costs and the amount of money you will be ahead at the end of the agreement.  It is very helpful in giving you more individualized figures.

You will notice the Company numbers are, on average, lower than the ones the CWA published with our bargaining report. This is the difference:

• The Company’s wage calculation is from April 2015 to April 2018; health care calculation is for 3 full years;
• Because we bargain health care for the full years 2016, 2017 and 2018 our calculation also extends through December 2018;
• We also calculated our increased wages through December 2018 (knowing, but NOT INCLUDING, there will probably be a wage increase in April 2018).

In unity,

Laura Unger

Assistant to VP